Wilfred Owen was killed on the battlefield, and his poems were hardly read during his lifetime. Born in Oswestry on the Welsh borders on March 18th, 1893, Owen had a burning desire to become a poet at a young age. He tried to write poems. Keats and Shelley were his early influences. Owen developed a liking for rhyming patterns, and these patterns became a feature of his poetry. However, he published only five poems during his lifetime.
Siegfried Sassoon, the poet, was his bosom friend. Sassoon had a huge influence on Owen’s poetry. Almost all of Owen’s poems were written between August 1917 and September 1918. World War I was raging at the time. ‘Insensibility’, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ and the ‘Strange Meeting’ are the outstanding poems of Owen. Owen died on the battlefield in 1918.